Market Linkage - Purchase Manager (Orissa )

FarMart; Odisha; On-site; INR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flat and transparent culture

High learning curve

Open, vibrant workspace

Job summary

FarMart is seeking a Purchase Manager to lead agricultural commodities procurement from suppliers and retailers across Odisha. The role focuses on price negotiation, contract management, and ensuring quality across Paddy, Rice, Wheat, and other staples.

You will collaborate with the procurement team to optimize sourcing and supplier performance. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in Agri commodities, strong negotiation skills, and readiness to travel and relocate within India as needed.

Qualifications

• QC: minimum 2 major commodities in the candidate's geographical area.
• Willingness to travel at least 50 km daily and relocate if needed.
• Experience with Wheat, Maize, Paddy, Gaur seeds, Mustard.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain relationships with Agri Input Retailers.
• Maintain records of Agri Commodities Procurement and pricing data.
• Review retailers, trades, and other options.
• Develop plans for purchasing Agri Commodities and supplies.
• Negotiate pricing and supply contracts.
• Ensure high quality of Agri Commodities (Paddy, Rice, Wheat, Soya, Gram, Maize, Black Gram, barley, Millet).
• Maintain retailer list with qualifications, delivery times, and future development.
• Collaborate with team to complete duties.

Skills

QC

Travel

Agri commodities

Job description

About FarMart:

FarMart is a modern food supply network connecting farming communities, food businesses, and consumers. We are seamlessly integrating food value chains. We source produce scalable via our first-mile platform, optimize processing throughan asset-light model, and subsequently distribute finished food digitally. By consolidating complex supply and distributionchannels on a single platform, we are changing the way food is bought and sold in India and the world.

Our mission is to createmore resilient, reliable, and rewarding food value chains for humanity. At FarMart, we're dedicated to building a good foodeconomy.We're proud to be backed by renowned venture capitalists, including General Catalyst, Matrix Partners, Omidyar Network, andAvaana Capital, who invest in sustainable and purpose-driven tech companies. Our trusted partners include industry leaderslike ITC, Sugna, Adani, Olam, Britannia, Glencoe, and Coffeco, among many others.

Founded by childhood friends Alekh Sanghera and Mehtab Singh Hans in 2015, FarMart set out to create a scalable tech solution that would make farming a reputable, profitable, and preferred profession for the next generation. Since our launch in 2015, we've established partnerships with over 230,000 farm aggregators and have positively impacted the lives of 3.2 millionfarmers and more than 2,000 food businesses worldwide.

To learn more about us, you can refer to the following media coverage:

• Moneycontrol
• Hindu Business Line
• YourStory

Locations:

Orissa

About the Role:

Purchase Manager is an experienced, self-motivated, flexible person, should be good in commodities price negotiation, should be good in communication, should be dedicated towards work, should be good experience in Agri business knowledge/Commodities Procurement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain good relationships with Agri Input Retailers
• Maintain records of Agri Commodities Procurement, Pricing, and other important data
• Review and analyze all retailers (Khad Vij Vikreta), Trades (Aadat), and Others optional.
• Develop plans for purchasing Agri Commodities, services, and supplies.
• Negotiate the best deal for pricing and supply contracts.
• Ensure that the Agri Commodity (Paddy, Rice, Wheat, Soya, Gram, Maize, Black Gram, barley, Millet) are high quality.
• Maintain and update a list of Agri retailers and their qualifications, delivery times, and potential future development.
• Work with team members and procurement manager to complete duties as need.

Must have skills:

• QC - Min 2 major commodity of his geographical area.
• Open to travel (Min. 50 Km a day) and open to relocation if needed.
• Experience into Wheat, Maize, Paddy, Gaur seeds, Mustard.

Good to have skills.

• Skills in quality management and negotiation can be developed through on-the-job training.
• Requiring candidates to possess knowledge of purchasing,

What we offer you:

• A flat and transparent culture with an incredibly high learning curve and a swanky informal workspace which defines our open and vibrant work culture.
• Opportunity to solve new and challenging problems with a high scope of innovation, complete ownership of the product, chance to conceptualize and implement your solutions.
• Opportunity to work with incredible peers and be a part of the Tech revolution.
• Most importantly, a chance to be associated with a big impact early in your career.